motive force
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Differentials in pH between condensates and the surrounding nucleoplasm generate gradients and "a pH gradient generates what is known as a proton motive force," King said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
He stopped being a motive force in the world, and became a passive object in his own story.
From The Verge ● May 31, 2017
I’m not sure desire is quite the motive force for the girl.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
In 1824, a young French scientist and engineer named Sadi Carnot published a paper on “the motive force of fire.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2015
He needed something to spring the spear forward, some way to make it move faster than the fish—some motive force.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
